Here is a collection of world famous 40 Ahadees in Urdu. For those who don't
have much time to read the whole Hadith Bokhari or Hadith Muslim, this is a
perfect leading collection of Ahadees that one can read within 15 minutes.

Hadees Collection (English)

Here is a a collection of sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), also
known as the sunnah. The reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds are called
ahadith. These famous Hadith scholars lived a couple of centuries after the
Prophet's death and worked extremely hard to collect His ahadith. Each report in
this collection was checked for compatibility with the Qur'an, and the veracity
of the chain of reporters had to be painstakingly established. This collection
is recognized by the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to be one of the
most authentic collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh).

Sahih Bukhari

Translator: M. Muhsin Khan

Bukhari (full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin al-Mughira
al-Ja'fai) was born in 194 A.H. and died in 256 A.H. His collection of hadith is
considered second to none. He spent sixteen years compiling it, and ended up
with 2,602 hadith (9,082 with repetition). His criteria for acceptance into the
collection were amongst the most stringent of all the scholars of ahadith.

Sahih Muslim

Translator: Abdul Hamid Siddiqui

Muslim (full name Abul Husain Muslim bin al-Hajjaj al-Nisapuri) was born in 202
A.H. and died in 261 A.H. He travelled widely to gather his collection of
ahadith, including to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Egypt. Out of 300,000
ahadith which he evaluated, only 4,000 approximately were extracted for
inclusion into his collection based on stringent acceptance criteria. Muslim was
a student of Bukhari.

Sunan Abu-Dawud

Translator: Prof. Ahmad Hasan

Abu-Dawud (full name Abu-Dawud Sulaiman bin Al-Aash'ath Al-Azdi as-Sijistani)
was born in 202 A.H. and died in 275 A.H. He was one of the most widely
travelled of the scholars of ahadith, going to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Khurasahn,
Egypt, Syria, Nishapur, Marv, and other places for the sole purpose of
collecting ahadith. His primary interest was in law, hence his collection
focuses purely on legal ahadith. From about 50,000 ahadith, he chose 4,800 for
inclusion in his work based on their superior authenticity.

Malik's Muwatta

Malik's Muwatta ("the well-trodden path") is a collection of two items:

the sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) (also known as the sunnah). The
reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds are called ahadith.

the legal opinions and decisions of the Prophet's Companions, their successors,
and some later authorities.

Malik (full name Malik bin Anas bin Malik bin Abu Amir Al-Asbahi) was born in 93
A.H. and died in 179 A.H. He lived most of his life in Madinah, the city in
which the Prophet (pbuh) settled in. He was a preeminent scholar of Islam, and
is the originator of the Maliki judicial school of thought. He is reputed to
have had over one thousand students. During Malik's lifetime, he steadily
revised his Muwatta, so it reflects over forty years of his learning and
knowledge. It contains a few thousand hadith.

Forty Hadith Qudsi

Hadith Qudsi are the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings of
Allah be upon him) as revealed to him by the Almighty Allah. Hadith Qudsi (or
Sacred Hadith) are so named because, unlike the majority of Hadith which are
Prophetic Hadith, their authority (Sanad) is traced back not to the Prophet but
to the Almighty.
Among the many definitions given by the early scholars to Sacred Hadith is that
of as-Sayyid ash-Sharif al-Jurjani (died in 816 A.H.) in his lexicon At-Tarifat
where he says: "A Sacred Hadith is, as to the meaning, from Allah the Almighty;
as to the wording, it is from the messenger of Allah (PBUH). It is that which
Allah the Almighty has communicated to His Prophet through revelation or in
dream, and he, peace be upon him, has communicated it in his own words. Thus
Qur'an is superior to it because, besides being revealed, it is His wording."

Hadith Qudsi 1:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:

When Allah decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His
book which is laid down with Him: My mercy prevails over my wrath.

It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, an-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah).

Hadith Qudsi 2:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah Almighty has
said:
The son of Adam denied Me and he had no right to do so. And he reviled
Me and he had no right to do so. As for his denying Me, it is his
saying: He will not remake me as He made me at first (1) - and the
initial creation [of him] is no easier for Me than remaking him. As for
his reviling Me, it is his saying: Allah has taken to Himself a son,
while I am the One, the Everlasting Refuge. I begot not nor was I
begotten, and there is none comparable to Me.

(1) i.e., bring me back to life after death.

It was related by al-Bukhari (also by an-Nasa'i).

Hadith Qudsi 3:On the authority of Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhaniyy (may Allah be
pleased with him), who said:
The Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon
him) led the morning prayer for us at al-Hudaybiyah following rainfall
during the night. When the Prophet (may the blessings and peace of Allah
be upon him) finished, he faced the people and said to them: Do you know
what your Lord has said? They said: Allah and his Messenger know best.
He said: This morning one of my servants became a believer in Me and one
a disbeliever. As for him who said: We have been given rain by virtue of
Allah and His mercy, that one is a believer in Me, a disbeliever in the
stars (2); and as for him who said: We have been given rain by
such-and-such a star, that one is a disbeliever in Me, a believer in the
stars.

(2) The pre-Islamic Arabs believed that rain was brought about by the
movement of stars. This Hadith draws attention to the fact that whatever
be the direct cause of such natural phenomena as rain, it is Allah the
Almighty who is the Disposer of all things.

It is related by al-Bukhari (also by Malik and an-Nasa'i).

Hadith Qudsi 4:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah said:
Sons of Adam inveigh against [the vicissitudes of] Time, and I am Time,
in My hand is the night and the day (1).

(1) As the Almighty is the Ordainer of all things, to inveigh aginst
misfortunes that are part of Time is tantamount to inveighing against
Him.

It was related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim).

Hadith Qudsi 5:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (glorified and
exalted be He) said:
I am so self-sufficient that I am in no need of having an associate.
Thus he who does an action for someone else's sake as well as Mine will
have that action renounced by Me to him whom he associated with Me.

It was related by Muslim (also by Ibn Majah).

Hadith Qudsi 6:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) say:
The first of people against whom judgment will be pronounced on the Day
of Resurrection will be a man who died a martyr. He will be brought and
Allah will make known to him His favours and he will recognize them. [
The Almighty] will say: And what did you do about them? He will say: I
fought for you until I died a martyr. He will say: You have lied - you
did but fight that it might be said [of you]: He is courageous. And so
it was said. Then he will be ordered to be dragged along on his face
until he is cast into Hell-fire. [Another] will be a man who has studied
[religious] knowledge and has taught it and who used to recite the Quran.
He will be brought and Allah will make known to his His favours and he
will recognize them. [The Almighty] will say: And what did you do about
them? He will say: I studied [religious] knowledge and I taught it and I
recited the Quran for Your sake. He will say: You have lied - you did
but study [religious] knowledge that it might be said [of you]: He is
learned. And you recited the Quran that it might be said [of you]: He is
a reciter. And so it was said. Then he will be ordered to be dragged
along on his face until he is cast into Hell-fire. [Another] will be a
man whom Allah had made rich and to whom He had given all kinds of
wealth. He will be brought and Allah will make known to his His favours
and he will recognize them. [The Almighty] will say: And what did you do
about them? He will say: I left no path [untrodden] in which You like
money to be spent without spending in it for Your sake. He will say: You
have lied - you did but do so that it might be said [of you]: He is
open-handed. And so it was said. Then he will be ordered to be dragged
along on his face until he is cast into Hell-fire.

It was related by Muslim (also by at-Tirmidhi and an-Nasa'i).

Hadith Qudsi 7:On the authority of Uqbah ibn Amir (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said: I heard the messenger of Allah (PBUH) say:
Your Lord delights at a shepherd who, on the peak of a mountain crag,
gives the call to prayer and prays. Then Allah (glorified and exalted be
He) say: Look at this servant of Mine, he gives the call to prayer and
performs the prayers; he is in awe of Me. I have forgiven My servant
[his sins] and have admitted him to Paradise.

It was related by an-Nasa'i with a good chain of authorities.

Hadith Qudsi 8:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him)
from the Prophet (PBUH), who said:
A prayer performed by someone who has not recited the Essence of the
Quran (1) during it is deficient (and he repeated the word three times),
incomplete. Someone said to Abu Hurayrah: [Even though] we are behind
the imam? (2) He said: Recite it to yourself, for I have heard the
Prophet (may the blessings and peace of Allah be up on him) say: Allah
(mighty and sublime be He), had said: I have divided prayer between
Myself and My servant into two halves, and My servant shall have what he
has asked for. When the servant says: Al-hamdu lillahi rabbi l-alamin
(3), Allah (mighty and sublime be He) says: My servant has praised Me.
And when he says: Ar-rahmani r-rahim (4), Allah (mighty and sublime be
He) says: My servant has extolled Me, and when he says: Maliki yawmi
d-din (5), Allah says: My servant has glorified Me - and on one occasion
He said: My servant has submitted to My power. And when he says: Iyyaka
na budu wa iyyaka nasta in (6), He says: This is between Me and My
servant, and My servant shall have what he has asked for. And when he
says: Ihdina s-sirata l- mustaqim, siratal ladhina an amta alayhim
ghayril-maghdubi alayhim wa la d-dallin (7), He says: This is for My
servant, and My servant shall have what he has asked for.

(7) "Guide us to the straight path, the path of those upon whom You have
bestowed favors, not of those against whom You are angry, nor of those
who are astray".

It was related by Muslim (also by Malik, at-Tirmidhi, Abu-Dawud, an-Nasa'i
and Ibn Majah).

Hadith Qudsi 9:On the authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him)
from the Prophet (PBUH), who said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He)
says:
The fist of his actions for which a servant of Allah will be held
accountable on the Day of Resurrection will be his prayers. If they are
in order, then he will have prospered and succeeded: and if they are
wanting, then he will have failed and lost. If there is something
defective in his obligatory prayers, the Lord (glorified and exalted be
He) will say: See if My servant has any supererogatory prayers with
which may be completed that which was defective in his obligatory
prayers. Then the rest of his actions will be judged in like fashion.

It was related by at-Tirmidhi (also by Abu Dawud, an-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah
and Ahmad).

Hadith Qudsi 10:On the authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him)
from the Prophet (PBUH), who said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He)
says:
Fasting is Mine and it I who give reward for it. [A man] gives up his
sexual passion, his food and his drink for my sake. Fasting is like a
shield, and he who fasts has two joys: a joy whin he breaks his fast and
a joy when he meets his Lord. The change in the breath of the mouth of
him who fasts is better in Allah's estimation than the smell of musk.

It was related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim, Malik, at-Tirmidhi, an-Nasa'i
and Ibn Majah).

Hadith Qudsi 11:On the authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him)
from the Prophet (PBUH), who said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He)
said:
Spend (on charity), O son of Adam, and I shall spend on you.

It was related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim).

Hadith Qudsi 12:On the authority of Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with
him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and peace
of Allah be upon him) said:
A man from among those who were before you was called to account.
Nothing in the way of good was found for him except that he used to have
dealings with people and, being well-to-do, he would order his servants
to let off the man in straitened circumstances [from repaying his debt].
He (the Prophet p.b.u.h) said that Allah said: We are worthier than you
of that (of being so generous). Let him off.

It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari and an-Nasa'i).

Hadith Qudsi 13:On the authority of Adiyy ibn Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said:
I was with the Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and peace of Allah
be upon him) and there came to him two men: one of them was complaining
of penury (being very poor), while the other was complaining of
brigandry (robbery). The Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and peace
of Allah be upon him) said: As for brigandry, it will be but a short
time before a caravan will [be able to] go out of Mecca without a guard.
As for penury, the Hour (Day of Judgement) will not arrive before one of
you takes his charity around without finding anyone to accept it from
him. Then (1) one of you will surely stand before Allah, there being no
screed between Him and him, nor an interpreter to translate for him.
Then He will say to him: Did I not bring you wealth? And he will say:
Yes. Then He will say: Did I not send to you a messenger? And he will
say: Yes. And he will look to his right and will see nothing but
Hell-fire, then he will look to his left and will see nothing but
Hell-fire, so let each of you protect himself against Hell-fire, be it
with even half a date - and if he finds it not, then with a kind word.

(1) i.e. at the time of the Hour. It was related by al-Bukhari.

Hadith Qudsi 14:On the authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him)
from the Prophet (PBUH), who said:
Allah (glorified and exalted be He) has supernumerary angels who rove
about seeking out gatherings in which Allah's name is being invoked:
they sit with them and fold their wings round each other, fillin that
which is between them and between the lowest heaven. When [the people in
the gathering] depart, [the angels] ascend and rise up to heaven. He
(the Prophet p.b.u.h.) said: Then Allah (mighty and sublime be He) asks
them - [though] He is most knowing about them: From where have you come?
And they say: We have come from some servants of Yours on Earth: they
were glorifying You (Subhana llah), exalting you (Allahu akbar),
witnessing that there is no god but You (La ilaha illa llah), praising
You (Al-Hamdu lillah), and asking [favours] of You. He says: And what do
they ask of Me? They say: They ask of You Your Paradise. He says: And
have they seen My Paradise? They say: No, O Lord. He says: And how would
it be were they to have seen My Paradise! They say: And they ask
protection of You. He says: From what do they ask protection of Me? They
say: From Your Hell-fire, O Lord. He says: And have they seen My
Hell-fire? They say: NO. He says: And how would it be were they to have
seen My Hell-fire: They say: And they ask for Your forgiveness. He (the
Prophet p.b.u.h) said: Then He says: I have forgiven them and I have
bestowed upon them what they have asked for,and I have granted them
sanctuary from that from which they asked protection. He (the Prophet
p.b.u.h) said: They say: O Lord, among then is So-and-so, a much sinning
servant, who was merely passing by and sat down with them. He (the
Prophet p.b.u.h) said: And He says: And to him [too] I have given
forgiveness: he who sits with such people shall not suffer.

It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, at-Tirmidhi, and an-Nasa'i).

Hadith Qudsi 15:On the authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Prophet (PBUH) said: Allah the Almighty said:
I am as My servant thinks I am (1). I am with him when he makes mention
of Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make mention of him to
Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make mention of
him in an assemble better than it. And if he draws near to Me an arm's
length, I draw near to him a fathom's length. And if he comes to Me
walking, I go to him at speed.

(1) Another possible rendering of the Arabic is: "I am as My servant
expects Me to be". The meaning is that forgiveness and acceptance of
repentance by the Almighty is subject to His servant truly believing
that He is forgiving and merciful. However, not to accompany such belief
with right action would be to mock the Almighty.

It was related by al-Buhkari (also by Muslim, at-Tirmidhi and Ibn-Majah).

Hadith Qudsi 16:On the authority of son of Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them
both), from the Messenger of Allah (PBUH), among the sayings he related
from his Lord (glorified and exalted be He) is that He said:
Allah has written down the good deeds and the bad ones. Then He
explained it [by saying that] he who has intended a good deed and has
not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed, but
if he has intended it and has done it, Allah writes it down with Himself
as from ten good deeds to seven hundred times, or many times over. But
if he has intended a bad deed and has not done it, Allah writes it down
with Himself as a full good deed, but if he has intended it and has done
it, Allah writes it down as one bad deed.

It was related by al-Bukhari and Muslim.

Hadith Qudsi 17:On the authority of Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with
him) from the Prophet (PBUH) is that among the sayings he relates from
his Lord (may He be glorified) is that He said:
O My servants, I have forbidden oppression for Myself and have made it
forbidden amongst you, so do not oppress one another. O My servants, all
of you are astray except for those I have guided, so seek guidance of Me
and I shall guide you, O My servants, all of you are hungry except for
those I have fed, so seek food of Me and I shall feed you. O My
servants, all of you are naked except for those I have clothed, so seek
clothing of Me and I shall clothe you. O My servants, you sin by night
and by day, and I forgive all sins, so seek forgiveness of Me and I
shall forgive you. O My servants, you will not attain harming Me so as
to harm Me, and will not attain benefitting Me so as to benefit Me. O My
servants, were the first of you and the last of you, the human of you
and the jinn of you to be as pious as the most pious heart of any one
man of you, that would not increase My kingdom in anything. O My
servants, were the first of you and the last of you, the human of you
and the jinn of you to be as wicked as the most wicked heart of any one
man of you, that would not decrease My kingdom in anything. O My
servants, were the first of you and the last of you, the human of you
and the jinn of you to rise up in one place and make a request of Me,
and were I to give everyone what he requested, that would not decrease
what I have, any more that a needle decreases the sea if put into it. O
My servants, it is but your deeds that I reckon up for you and then
recompense you for, so let him finds good praise Allah and let him who
finds other that blame no one but himself.

It was related by Muslim (also by at-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah).

Hadith Qudsi 18:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) will say on the Day of Resurrection:
O son of Adam, I fell ill and you visited Me not. He will say: O Lord,
and how should I visit You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will
say: Did you not know that My servant So-and-so had fallen ill and you
visited him not? Did you not know that had you visited him you would
have found Me with him? O son of Adam, I asked you for food and you fed
Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how should I feed You when You are the
Lord of the worlds? He will say: Did you not know that My servant
So-and-so asked you for food and you fed him not? Did you not know that
had you fed him you would surely have found that (the reward for doing
so) with Me? O son of Adam, I asked you to give Me to drink and you gave
Me not to drink. He will say: O Lord, how should I give You to drink
whin You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: My servant So-and-so
asked you to give him to drink and you gave him not to drink. Had you
given him to drink you would have surely found that with Me.

It was related by Muslim.

Hadith Qudsi 19:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) said:
Pride is my cloak and greatness My robe, and he who competes with Me in
respect of either of them I shall cast into Hell-fire.

It was related by Abu Dawud (also by Ibn Majah and Ahmad) with sound
chains of authority. This Hadith also appears in Muslim in another
version.

Hadith Qudsi 20:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
The gates of Paradise will be opened on Mondays and on Thursdays, and
every servant [of Allah] who associates nothing with Allah will be
forgiven, except for the man who has a grudge against his brother.
[About them] it will be said: Delay these two until they are reconciled;
delay these two until they are reconciled.

It was related by Muslim (also by Malik and Abu Dawud).

Hadith Qudsi 21:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said that Allah the Almighty
said:
There are three (1) whose adversary I shall be on the Day of
Resurrection: a man who has given his word by Me and has broken it; a
man who has sold a free man (2) and has consumed the price; and a man
who has hired a workman, has exacted his due in full from him and has
not given him his wage.

(1) i.e. types of men.

(2) i.e. a man who has made a slave of another and has sold him.

It was related by al-Bukhari (also by Ibn Majah and Ahmad ibn Hanbal).

Hadith Qudsi 22:
On the authority of Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him), who said
that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
Let not any one of you belittle himself. They said: O Messenger of
Allah, how can any one of us belittle himself? He said: He finds a
matter concerning Allah about which he should say something, and he does
not say [it], so Allah (mighty and sublime be He) says to him on the Day
of Resurrection: What prevented you from saying something about
such-and-such and such-and-such? He say: [It was] out of fear of people.
Then He says: Rather it is I whom you should more properly fear.

It was related by Ibn Majah with a sound chain of authorities.

Hadith Qudsi 23:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah will say on the
Day of Resurrection:
Where are those who love one another through My glory? Today I shall
give them shade in My shade, it being a day when there is no shade but
My shade.

It was related by al-Bukhari (also by Malik).

Hadith Qudsi 24:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
If Allah has loved a servant [of His] He calls Gabriel (on whom be
peace) and says: I love So-and-so, therefore love him. He (the Prophet
pbuh) said: So Gabriel loves him. Then he (Gabriel) calls out in heaven,
saying: Allah loves So-and-so, therefore love him. And the inhabitants
of heaven love him. He (the Prophet pbuh) said: Then acceptance is
established for him on earth. And if Allah has abhorred a servant [of
His], He calls Gabriel and says: I abhor So-and-so, therefore abhor him.
So Gabriel abhors him. Then Gabriel calls out to the inhabitants of
heaven: Allah abhors So-and-so, therefore abhor him. He (the Prophet
pbuh) said: So they abhor him, and abhorrence is established for him on
earth.

It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, Malik, and at-Tirmidhi).

Hadith Qudsi 25:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) said:
Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with
him. My servant draws not near to Me with anything more loved by Me than
the religious duties I have enjoined upon him, and My servant continues
to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love him.
When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with
which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he
walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him,
and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it. I do not
hesitate about anything as much as I hesitate about [seizing] the soul
of My faithful servant: he hates death and I hate hurting him.

It was related by al-Bukhari.

Hadith Qudsi 26:On the authority of Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him), who
said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and sublime
be He) said:
Truly of those devoted to Me the one I most favour is a believer who is
of meagre means and much given to prayer, who has been particular in the
worship of his Lord and has obeyed Him inwardly (1), who was obscure
among people and not pointed our, and whose sustenance was just
sufficient to provide for him yet he bore this patiently. Then the
Prophet (pbuh) rapped his hand and said: Death will have come early to
him, his mourners will have been few, his estate scant.

(1) i.e. he has not been ostentatious in his obedience.

It was related by at-Tirmidhi (also by Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Ibn Majah).
Its chain of authorities is sound.

Hadith Qudsi 27:On the authority of Masruq, who said:
We asked Abdullah (i.e. Ibn Masud) about this verse: And do not regard
those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead, rather are
they alive with their Lord, being provided for (Quran Chapter 3 Verse
169). He said: We asked about that and the Prophet (pbuh) said: Their
souls are in the insides of green birds having lanterns suspended from
the Throne, roaming freely in Paradise where they please, then taking
shelter in those lanterns. So their Lord cast a glance at them (1) and
said: Do you wish for anything? They said: What shall we wish for when
we roam freely in Paradise where we please? And thus did He do to them
three times. When they say that they would not be spared from being
asked [again], they said: O Lord, we would like for You to put back our
souls into our bodies so that we might fight for Your sake once again.
And when He saw that they were not in need of anything they were let be.

(1) i.e. at those who had been killed in the cause of Allah.

It was related by Muslim (also by at-Tirmidhi, an-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah).

Hadith Qudsi 28:On the authority of Jundub ibn Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with
him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
There was amongst those before you a man who had a wound. He was in
[such] anguish that he took a knife and made with it a cut in his hand,
and the blood did not cease to flow till he died. Allah the Almighty
said: My servant has himself forestalled Me; I have forbidden him
Paradise.

It was related by al-Bukhari.

Hadith Qudsi 29:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) says:
My faithful servant's reward from Me, if I have taken to Me his best
friend from amongst the inhabitants of the world and he has then borne
it patiently for My sake, shall be nothing less than Paradise.

It was related by al-Bukhari.

Hadith Qudsi 30:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (mighty and
sublime be He) said:
If My servant likes to meet Me, I like to meet him; and if he dislikes
to meet Me, I dislike to meet him. Prophetic explanation of this Sacred
Hadith: He who likes to meet Allah, Allah likes to meet him; and he who
dislikes to meet Allah, Allah dislikes to meet him. Aishah (may Allah be
pleased with her) said: O Prophet of Allah, is it because of the dislike
of death, for all of us dislike death? The Prophet (pbuh) said: It is
not so, but rather it is that when the believer is given news of Allah's
mercy, His approval and His Paradise, he likes to meet Allah and Allah
likes to meet him; but when the unbeliever is given news of Allah's
punishment and His displeasure, he dislikes to meet Allah and Allah
dislikes to meet him.

It was related by al-Bukhari and Malik. The Prophetic version is related
by Muslim.

Hadith Qudsi 31:On the authority of Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him), who said
that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) related:
A man said: By Allah, Allah will not forgive So-and-so. At this Allah
the Almighty said: Who is he who swears by Me that I will not forgive
So-and-so? Verily I have forgiven So-and-so and have nullified your [own
good] deeds (1) (or as he said [it]).

(1) A similar Hadith, which is given by Abu Dawud, indicates that the
person referred to was a goldly man whose previous good deeds were
brought to nought through presuming to declare that Allah would not
forgive someone's bad deeds.

It was related by Muslim.

Hadith Qudsi 32:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
A man sinned greatly against himself, and when death came to him he
charged his sons, saying: When I have died, burn me, then crush me and
scatter [my ashes] into the sea, for, by Allah, if my Lord takes
possession of me, He will punish me in a manner in which He has punished
no one [else]. So they did that to him. Then He said to the earth:
Produce what you have taken-and there he was! And He said to him: What
induced you to do what you did? He said: Being afraid of You, O my Lord
(or he said: Being frightened of You) and because of that He forgave
him.

It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, an-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah).

Hadith Qudsi 33:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him)
that the Prophet (PBUH), from among the things he reports from his Lord
(mighty and sublime be He), is that he said:
A servant [of Allah's] committed a sin and said: O Allah, forgive me my
sin. And He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed
a sin and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes
for them. Then he sinned again and said: O Lord, forgive me my sin. And
He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a sin
and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for
them. Then he sinned again and said: O Lord, forgive me my sin. And He
(glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a sin and
has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for sins. Do
what you wish, for I have forgiven you.

It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari).

Hadith Qudsi 34:On the authority of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
I heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) say: Allah the Almighty said:
O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall
forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam,
were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask
forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come
to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face
Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as
great at it.

It was related by at-Tirmidhi (also by Ahmad ibn Hanbal). Its chain of
authorities is sound.

Hadith Qudsi 35:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
Our Lord (glorified and exalted be He) descends each night to the
earth's sky when there remains the final third of the night, and He
says: Who is saying a prayer to Me that I may answer it? Who is asking
something of Me that I may give it him? Who is asking forgiveness of Me
that I may forgive him?

It was related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim, Malik, at-Tirmidhi and Abu
Dawud).

In a version by Muslim the Hadith ends with the words:

And thus He continues till [the light of] dawn shines.

Hadith Qudsi 36:On the authority of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) from the
Prophet (PBUH), who said:
The believers will gather together on the Day of Resurrection and will
say: Should we not ask [someone] to intercede for us with our Lord? So
they will come to Adam and will say: You are the Father of mankind;
Allah created you with His hand He made His angels bow down to you and
He taught you the names of everything, so intercede for us with you Lord
so that He may give us relief form this place where we are. And he will
say: I am not in a position [to do that] - and he will mention his
wrongdoing and will feel ashamed and will say: Go to Noah, for he is the
first messenger that Allah sent to the inhabitants of the earth. So they
will come to him and he will say: I am not in a position [to do that] -
and he will mention his having requested something of his Lord about
which he had no [proper] knowledge (Quran Chapter 11 Verses 45-46), and
he will feel ashamed and will say: Go to the Friend of the Merciful
(Abraham). So they will come to him and he will say: I am not in a
position [to do that]. Go to Moses, a servant to whom Allah talked and
to whom He gave the Torah. So they will come to him and he will say: I
am not in a position [to do that] - and he will mention the talking of a
life other that for a life (Quran Chapter 28 Verses 15-16), and he will
fell ashamed in the sight of his Lord and will say: Go to Jesus, Allah's
servant and messenger, Allah's word and spirit. So they will come to him
and he will say: I am not in a position [to do that]. Go to Muhammad
(may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), a servant to whom
Allah has forgiven all his wrongdoing, past and future. So they will
come to me and I shall set forth to ask permission to come to my Lord,
and permission will be given, and when I shall see my Lord I shall
prostrate myself. He will leave me thus for such time as it pleases Him,
and then it will be said [to me]: Raise your head. Ask and it will be
granted. Speak and it will be heard. Intercede and your intercession
will be accepted. So I shall raise my head and praise Him with a form of
praise that He will teach me. Then I shall intercede and HE will set me
a limit [as to the number of people], so I shall admit them into
Paradise. Then I shall return to Him, and when I shall see my Lord [I
shall bow down] as before. Then I shall intercede and He will set me a
limit [as to the number of people]. So I shall admit them into Paradise.
Then I shall return for a third time, then a fourth, and I shall say:
There remains in Hell-fire only those whom the Quran has confined and
who must be there for eternity. There shall come out of Hell-fire he who
has said: There is no god but Allah and who has in his heart goodness
weighing a barley-corn; then there shall come out of Hell-fire he who
has said: There is no god but Allah and who has in his heart goodness
weighing a grain of wheat; then there shall come out of Hell-fire he who
has said: There is no god but Allah and who has in his heart goodness
weighing an atom.

It was related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim, at-Tirmidhi, and Ibn Majah).

Hadith Qudsi 37:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah said:
I have prepared for My righteous servants what no eye has seen and no
ear has heard, not has it occurred to human heart. Thus recite if you
wish (1): And no soul knows what joy for them (the inhabitants of
Paradise) has been kept hidden (Quran Chapter 32 Verse 17).

(1) The words "Thus recite if you wish" are those of Abu Harayrah.

It was related by al-Bukhari, Muslim, at-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah.

Hadith Qudsi 38:On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him),
who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
When Allah created Paradise and Hell-fire, He sent Gabriel to Paradise,
saying: Look at it and at what I have prepared therein for its
inhabitants. The Prophet (pbuh) said: So he came to it and looked at it
and at what Allah had prepared therein for its inhabitants. The Prophet
(pbuh) said: So he returned to Him and said: By your glory, no one hears
of it without entering it. So He ordered that it be encompassed by forms
of hardship, and He said: Return to it and look at what I have prepared
therein for its inhabitants. The Prophet (pbuh) said: So he returned to
it and found that it was encompassed by forms of hardship (1). Then he
returned to Him and said: By Your glory, I fear that no one will enter
it. He said: Go to Hell-fire and look at it and what I have prepared
therein for its inhabitants, and he fount that it was in layers, one
above the other. Then he returned to Him and said: By Your glory, no one
who hears of it will enter it. So He ordered that it be encompassed by
lusts. Then He said: Return to it. And he returned to it and said: By
Your glory, I am frightened that no one will escape from entering it.

(1) The Arabic word used here is "makarih", the literal meaning of which
is "things that are disliked". In this context it refers to forms of
religious discipline that man usually finds onerous.

It was related by Tirmidhi, who said that it was a good and sound Hadith
(also by Abu Dawud and an-Nasa'i).

Hadith Qudsi 39:On the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with
him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
Paradise and Hell-fire disputed together, and Hell-fire said: In me are
the mighty and the haughty. Paradise said: In me are the weak and the
poor. So Allah judged between them, [saying]: You are Paradise, My
mercy; through you I show mercy to those I wish. And you are Hell-fire,
My punishment; through you I punish those I wish, and it is incumbent
upon Me that each of you shall have its fill.

It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari and at-Tirmidhi).

Hadith Qudsi 40:On the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with
him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
Allah will say to the inhabitant of Paradise: O inhabitants of Paradise!
They will say: O our Lord, we present ourselves and are at Your
pleasure, and goodness rests in Your hands. Then He will say: Are you
contented? And they will say: And how should we not be contented, O
Lord, when You have given to us that which You have given to no one else
of Your creation? Then He will say: Would not like Me to give you
something better than that? And they will say: O Lord and what thing is
better than that? And He will say: I shall cause My favour to descend
upon you and thereafter shall never be displeased with you.